Hi Ant developers,
I have implemented for myself modifications of tasks XMLValidate and
SchemaValidate that use JAXP 1.3 validation techniques, i.e. package
javax.xml.validation which is part of standard JRE since 1.5. The main reason
for this was the possibility to use interface LSResourceResolver to resolve XML
schemas using XML Catalog based on the XML namespace that they define (i.e. in
XMLCatalog you specify a mapping from XML namespace to XML schema document and
whenever an element in this namespace is encountered in the XML document being
validated, this XML schema is used for validating this document). I've
implemented this in a way that is probably not compatible with Ant policy,
namely that the code has to compile on Java 1.2, or am I wrong? Anyway, this
would need to be somehow finished and before I spend the time to do it I'd like
to ask whether you think this could be useful for inclusion in Ant.
The modification itself is not large, but if I must use only reflection to
access non-1.2 classes, it could get messy. So what do you think?
Thanks for your opinions.
David
